![]() Electing to sustain life or introduce radical treatment for frost bite can affect recovery times. ![]() Wanting to put children in shelters might affect your workforce. Almost every decision you make as Captain has consequences, intended or otherwise. Too much Discontent or too low Hope (or both) for too long will guarantee a game over when you’re ousted. The balance between Discontent and Hope is precarious. Then, to win each scenario, it’s a matter of achieving its goals (or simply surviving for as long as possible in Endless Mode) while also ensuring the survival of as many people as possible. All but one scenario have a generator to maintain heat (temperatures start at -20C and don’t get much higher). ![]() Generally, you start off with a group of new citizens with maybe some coal, wood, or steel. The gameplay loop centers on you providing for your people, acquiring resources, and passing laws. Since then, I have sunk well over 150 hours into this strategic survival game with varying levels of success per play time. You play as “the Captain” who is to shepherd a group and lead a city to survival, despite plunging temperatures, lack of resources, and incoming blizzards.ġ1bit Studios based in Poland created the game and it was released on PC in 2018, came out on consoles in 2019, but I didn’t really start plying until 2020. and British governments built generators in the coal-rich North to serve as city centers in the events of such an apocalypse. The year is 1886 in an alternative history where the world turns to ice as a result of global volcanic cooling. That’s right, I’m talking about Frostpunk (available on PS4, XBox One, and Steam). But there has been one game which really helped me wrangle any sense of control in what I didn’t yet know was already a chaotic year of upheaval, changes, fear, and uncertainty. Much of the media I’ve consumed has been in a subgenre of “going outside is bad, actually.” This partially extends to video games, except for when you consider I’ve played Death Stranding, Animal Crossing, Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, and Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
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